vim VS nvim

Compare vim vs nvim and see what are their differences.

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vim nvim
17 68
1,293 4,671
0.3% 8.2%
5.0 9.0
14 days ago 10 days ago
Vim Script Lua
MIT License MIT License
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vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim and nvim you can also consider the following projects:

plenary.nvim - plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.

rose-pine-theme - All natural pine, faux fur and a bit of soho vibes for the classy minimalist

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

transparent.nvim - Remove all background colors to make nvim transparent

vim-context-commentstring - Vim plugin that sets the value of ‘commentstring’ to a different value depending on the region of the file you are in.

nvim-transparent - Remove all background colors to make nvim transparent [Moved to: https://github.com/xiyaowong/transparent.nvim]

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

catppuccin - 😸 Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited!

zet - Zettelkasten Repo. This is where I dump my knowledge as it happens, all my zettels ("slips" or notes) about almost anything and everything. The idea is rather simple really and very powerful. Be warned, however, just because something is here doesn't mean it is accurate or even that I still believe it.

dressing.nvim - Neovim plugin to improve the default vim.ui interfaces

gruvbox-contrib - Ports of the gruvbox colorscheme

tree-sitter-markdown - Markdown grammar for tree-sitter